Patent Leaderboard
USPTO Patent Rankings Data through Sept 30, 2025

Austin, TX ranks #31 worldwide for total patents filed all time, with 146,494 patents from 18,064 inventors. Leading employers of inventors based in Austin, TX include Motorola, Arthrocare, Evernote. That works out to 152.3 patents per 1,000 residents, a common benchmark for comparing regional innovation intensity.

Showing 17,051–17,100 of 18,064 inventors

Rank Inventor Primary Company Patents
#12140 Ross A. Fisher Motorola 1
#12140 Lona Foelker Arthrocare 1
#12140 Kay C. Schulle 1
#12140 Christopher Hinkle Evernote 1
#12140 E. Alan Davis Dell Usa 1
#12140 Tony L. Langley Enviroquip 1
#12140 Stephen J. Slaiken 1
#12140 Paul August Kaschube AT&T 1
#12140 William F. Primeaux Motorola 1
#12140 Mason Weems Motorola 1
#12140 John E. St. Lawrence, Jr. IBM 1
#12140 Charles J. Clarkson IBM 1
#12140 Jules D. Campbell, Jr Motorola 1
#12140 Hajimi Kawa Exfluor Research 1
#12140 Michael G. Quirk IBM 1
#12140 Gary A. Hallock ExxonMobil 1
#12140 John A. Kirchner Texas Instruments 1
#12140 Emile G. Savegh W.L. Gore & Associates Gmbh 1
#12140 Ting Shen 1
#12140 Cheng-Yuan Yu IBM 1
#12140 Irvin W. Couch 1
#12140 Allen J. Erb IBM 1
#12140 Neil B. Henis Motorola 1
#12140 Darien Sharif 1
#12140 Stephen A. Curtis IBM 1
#12140 Jagdish P. Mathur Tracor Aerospace 1
#12140 Sang-sun Yoo Ross Technology 1
#12140 Dixon W. Coulbourn US Air Force 1
#12140 J. Michael O'Dell Dell Usa 1
#12140 Tracy Vandenbroek Luminex 1
#12140 Romi Bose AMD 1
#12140 Robert Witowski Harris 1
#12140 Christopher J. Burkhard 3M 1
#12140 Donald Veloz, JR. 1
#12140 Janet A. Asghar 1
#12140 John Douglas Stuber Phillips Petroleum 1
#12140 Christopher A. Turman Motorola 1
#12140 Vladimir V. Shtraikh AMD 1
#12140 Shie Oian National Instruments 1
#12140 Robert E. Jones Jr. Motorola 1
#12140 Michael E. Darland 3M 1
#12140 Kathleen S. Hirsch 1
#12140 Barrett Baxter Broadcom 1
#12140 Jane Garrison IBM 1
#12140 Raymond J. Holley Dell Usa 1
#12140 Kevin A. Calhoun Motorola 1
#12140 Sriram Viswanath University Of Texas System 1
#12140 W. K. Wilkirson 1
#12140 John J. Meaux University Of Texas System 1
#12140 Kristin Machacek Leary Forcepoint 1

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